Thomas Bulfinch Quotes
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
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II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
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What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and how often women want to hear 'I love you.' For the most part, it's on the guy. He's not withholding it intentionally. It's just that we kind of miss the point sometimes, that even in the most nonchalant way, telling the person how you feel is important.
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You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!
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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
